TEACH ME
YOUR WAY
O LORD!
Iskander Jadeed

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THE QUESTIONS:
Islam, as the chosen Religion of Allah, is a reli-
gion appointed by Allah for his worshippers.
But there are many other religions. Is there
among them something better than Islam?
And if that where the case, what do you think
about the utterance of Allah: Truly the religion
(accepted) by Allah is Islam!
A.G. MAROCCO

TEACH ME
YOUR WAY,
O LORD!
by
Iskander Jadeed
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In his book, The Spirit of the Islamic Religion,
the great scholar Afif Tabbara gives the derivation
of the word Al-Islam from "salima" as meaning:
1.	Deliverance and freedom from faults open
or hidden
2.	Reconciliation and safety
3.	Obedience and surrender
(The Spirit of the Islamic Religion, page 17).
For its spiritual meaning he does not confine
himself to the religion proclaimed by Muhammed,
son of Abdullah but includes every heavenly reli-
gion which avers the unity of God. The Koran
itself testifies to this truth, which is proved by the
saying, "No; Abraham in truth was not a Jew,
neither a Christian; but he was a Muslim and one
of pure faith; certainly he was never of the ido-
lators" (Sura 3: Family of Imran 67).
Abraham lived thousands of years before the
Muslim Era as everyone knows. Nevertheless, the
Koran regarded him as being a Muslim, because
he believed that God was one.
Indeed, in the Jalaleyn exposition of Imran 67

we read: „Abraham leaned away from all other
religions to embrace the upright faith (a Muslim)
believing in God's oneness, for he was no idola-
tor."1
Likewise, Koranic texts indicate that the word
"Islam" applies to the Jews, repositories of the
Torah. We read this statement: "Surely We sent
down the Torah, wherein is guidance and light;
thereby the prophets who had surrendered them-
selves gave judgment for those of Jewry as did
the masters and rabbis" (Sura 5, Table 44). Jala-
leyn's interpretation of the word "Aslamtoo" in
this connection means submission to God's lea-
ding.
It also applies to Christians as proved by the
Koranic saying: "But when Jesus perceived their
unbelief, he said, 'Who will be my helpers unto
God?' The apostles said, 'We will be helpers of
God; we believe in God, witness Thou our "sub-
mission"'"2 (Sura 3, Family of Imran 52).
1	those who add gods to God
(NB Quotations from the Koran are taken from Arberry [Worlds
Classics],  and  Bible quotations are taken from the NIV.)
2	are Muslims

Now the apostles here were Christ's twelve
disciples who followed him at the start of his
ministry, that is before the Mohammedan era by
several centuries. Even so the Koran calls them
"Muslims" (submission).
"He has laid down for you as religion that He
charged Noah with, and that we have revealed to
thee, and that We charged Abraham with, Moses
and Jesus: 'Perform the religion, and scatter not
regarding it'" (Sura 42, Al-Shura 13).
Islam then, according to this verse is belief
both in Moses and Jesus (I'sa) while upholding
the Torah and the Gospel. In another place the
Koran commends to people the religion of Abra-
ham, Moses, and Jesus, i.e. the religion of the
Torah and the Gospel together. We read this
statement, for instance:
"Say you: we believe in God, and in that which
has been sent down on us and sent down on
Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob, and the
Tribes, and that which was given to Moses and
Jesus and the Prophets, of their Lord; we make
no division between any of them, and to Him we
surrender" (Sura 2, The Cow 136).

"Those are they to whom, We gave the Book,
the Judgment, the Prophethood; so if these dis-
believe in it, We have already entrusted it to a
people who do not disbelieve in it. Those are they
whom God has guided, so follow their guidance"
(Sura 6 Al Anam 89-90).
"And a party of the Children of Israel believ-
ed, and a party disbelieved. So We confirmed
those who believed against their enemy, and they
became masters" (Sura 61, The Ranks 14).
The main point of these verses is that the
Koran acknowledged Jewish followers of Moses
and later those who believed in Christ, calling
them "Muslims". It enjoined Muhammed to be
guided by their experience, and instructed him to
inquire of them on how to be rid of religious
doubt, as in the verses:
"So if Thou are in doubt, regarding what We
have sent down to thee, ask those who recite the
Book before thee. The truth has come down to
thee from thy Lord; so be not of the doubters"
(Sura 10, Jonah 94).

Dear Friend,
You have invoked the Koran to claim that
Islam is the only religion chosen of God, for-
getting that the Koran itself upholds the Gospel
when it declares:
"So let the people of the Gospel, judge ac-
cording to what God has sent down therein.
Whosoever jugdes not according to what god
has sent down - they are the ungodly" (Sura 5,
Table 47).
"Oh believers, believe in God and His Mes-
senger and the Book He has sent down on His
Messenger and the Book which He sent down
before. Whoso disbelieves in God and His Angels
and His Book and His Messengers, and the Last
Day, has surely gone astray into far error" (Sura 4,
Women 136).
Perhaps the last two texts will persuade you to
reconsider your position towards the religion of
God in the Gospel; since they call you to follow its
precepts, of which the foremost is belief in Jesus
Christ who said:
"I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me" (John 14:6).
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"I am the resurrection and the life. He who
believes in me will live, even though he dies" (John
11:26).
"No one knows the Son except the Father, and
no one knows the Father except the Son and those
to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. Come to
me all you who are weary and burdened and I will
give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).
Certainly there has been no nobler religion than
the one flowing from God's beloved Gospel. It is
distinguished not by being a letter sent down but
by a divine Person who, at the right time, became
incarnate in order to declare God's love in redemp-
tion, and to save the world by grace. It is the
Gospel which says:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. He was
with God in the beginning. Through him all things
were made; without him nothing was made that
has been made. In him was life, and that life was
the light of men. The light shines in the darkness,
but the darkness has not understood it.
"There came a man who was sent from God; his

name was John. He came as a witness to testify
concerning that light, so that through him all men
might believe. He himself was not the light; he
came only as a witness to the light. The true light
that gives light to every man was coming into the
world.
"He was in the world, and though the world was
made through him, the world did not recognize
him. He came to that which was his own, but his
own did not receive him. Yet to all who received
him, to those who believed in his name, he gave
the right to become children of God - children
born not of natural descent, not of human deci-
sion or a husband's will, but born of God.
"The Word became flesh and lived for a while
among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the
one and only Son, who came from the Father, full
of grace and truth.
"John testifies concerning him. He cries out,
saying, 'This was he of whom I said, "He who
comes after me has surpassed me because he was
before me."' From the fulness of his grace we have
all received one blessing after another. For the law

was given through Moses; grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God,
but God the only Son, who is at the Father's side,
has made him known" (John 1:1-18).
The apostolic word spoken by Paul the warrior
of the Faith states:
"So also, when we were children, we were in
slavery under the basic principles of the word. But
when the time had fully come, God sent his Son,
born of a woman, born under law to redeem those
under law, that we might receive the full rights of
sons" (Galatians 4:3-5).
The Christian religion is the religion of redemp-
tion, without which we would still be prostrate
under the burden of sin, without hope in the
world, destined to the fires of hell. But God, who
is rich in mercy, devised man's salvation through
the sacrificial death of Christ thus proving his
wonderful and boundless love. Christ expressed
this love by saying:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whosoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
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The Buddhist religion says:
"Goodness and righteousness both are the road
which leads to Nirvana - The greatest good."
The Jewish religion says:
"Moses writes of the righteousness of the Law,
whoever keeps it shall live by it."
The Islamic religion says:
"The weight in that day is truth. They whose
weights are heavier are the successful."
All these sayings are excellent, but they urge
man to do something of which he is incapable. It is
like asking a paralytic to move or a dead person to
live!
Regarding righteousness, King David said
under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit: "The
Lord looks down from heaven on the sons of men
to see if there are any who understand, any who
seek God. All have turned aside, they have to-
gether become corrupt; there is no one who does
good not even one" (Psalm 14:2-3).
As for keeping the Law, the first and greatest
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commandment enjoins man to "Love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your strength and with all your
mind". The second charges him to love his
neighbor as himself (Luke 10:27).
Experience teaches us that no human person
was able to fulfill the Law. For this reason all
those who tried to do the Law fell under a curse for
it is written: "All who rely on observing the law are
under a curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone
who does not continue to do everything wirtten in
the Book of the Law" (Galatians 3:10). On the
subject of the weight of our deeds, God through
his servant David said:
"Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn
are but a lie if weighed on a balance, they are
nothing; together they are only a breath" (Psalm
72:9).
Isaiah the prophet said: "All of us have become
like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts
are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf and
like the wind our sins sweep us away" (Isaiah 64:6).
Paul the apostle said: "There is no one righte-
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ous, not even one; there is no one who under-
stands, no one who seeks God... All have turned
away, they have together become worthless, there
is no one who does good, not even one" (Romans
3:11-12).
It is true that the Law is holy and its precepts are
sacred and just and righteous but it is unable to
give the sinner a full salvation. "For what the law
was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the
sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in
the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And
so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that
the righteous requirements of the law might be
fully met in us, who do not live according to the
sinful nature but according to the Spirit" (Romans
8:3-4).
This is what distinguishes the Christian faith. It
is the religion of redemption which does not leave
man bereft of salvation. Because God deals with
him on the basis of grace when he responds to
Christ's sacrificial death on the cross.
Since the Law was unable to deliver him from
the power of sin and death, it failed to save and
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sanctify him and make him fit for God's kingdom.
Christ, who is the Lord from heaven became incar-
nate sharing in man's flesh and blood in order to
offer himself a substitutionary sacrifice for sin,
destroying sin, and breaking its hold on man and
bearing its penalty in place of man. By this redemp-
tive, vicarious work he satisfied for us all the
claims of the Law and so filfilled the prophetic
words: "Surely he took up our infirmities and
carried our sorrows, yet we considered him
stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was
crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that
brought us peace was upon him, and by his
wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have
gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all"
(Isaiah 53:4-6). You may find it difficult to accept
the idea of redemption because it depends on
Christ's shameful death on the cross - a theme
which Muslims find offensive. However, the
proofs that Christ died by crucifixion are many
and incontrovertible. I have compiled them in a
booklet entitled, The Cross in the Gospel and the
Koran which you can order from "The Good Way".
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Among the distinctions of the faith of the
Gospel are its sublime social precepts which befit
every generation, age, people, tongue and nation.
They are based on the "Golden Rule" laid down
by Christ. He said, "In everything, do to others
what you would have them do to you, for this
sums up the Law and the Prophets" (Matthew
7:12).
This Rule forbids narrow selfishness, hatred,
revenge, intrigue, deceit, cheating, and establishes
the unity of mankind, the equality of all its mem-
bers, and demands that each should seek the wel-
fare of others.
It is only a brief rule, but keeping it abolishes
strife and warfare that would make this world the
paradise of bliss. For in it is the distillation of the
teachings of the Law and Prophets, since its object
is to make each one love the other as himself.
Actually this glorious Rule teaches us how to
fulfill the commandment which says: "You shall
love your neighbor as yourself, which the apostle
Paul commented on by saying: "...for he who
loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law. The
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commandments, 'Do not steal', 'Do not covet',
and whatever other commandment there maybe;
are summed up in this one rule; 'Love your neigh-
bor as yourself. Love does no harm to its neigh-
bor. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law"
(Romans 13:8-10).
And in order for Christ to remove from the
souls of his elect all influences which hinder man
from attaining this lofty height of love he said to
them: "But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray
for those who persecute you, that you may be the
sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to
rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the
righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those
who love you, what reward will you get? Are not
even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet
only your brothers, what are you doing more than
others? Do not even pagans do that? Be perfect,
therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect"
(Matthew 5:44-48).
These principles, then, in their transcendence,
their breadth and depth, demonstrate their super-
iority over natural love and natural benevolence
based on the principle of self-love whose slogan is
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the expect return and repayment. Therefore,
Christ meant us to love for its own sake, and to
desire the welfare of others as an end in itself and
to cling to righteousness and virtue for the sake of
righteous and virtue.
Christ's apostles expounded their Master's
teaching on love in magnificent expositions in-
spired by the Holy Spirit. Such is:
1. The Apostle John
"Dear friends, I am not writing you a new
command but an old one, which you have had
since the beginning. The old command is the
message you have heard. Yet I am writing you a
new command; its truth is seen in him and you;
because the darkness is passing and the true light
is already shining.
"Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates
his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his
brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in
him to make him stumble. But whoever hates his
brother is in the darkness and walks around in the
darkness. He does not know where he is going,
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because the darkness has blinded him" (I John
2:7-11).
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love
comes from God. Everyone who loves has been
born of God and knows God. Whoever does not
love does not know God, because God is love.
This is how God showed his love among us: He
sent his one and only Son into the world that we
might live through him. This is love: not that we
loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as
an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends,
since God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love
each other, God lives in us and his love is made
complete in us.
"We know that we live in him and he in us,
because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have
seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to
be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowled-
ges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him
and he in God. And so we know and rely on the
love God has for us.
"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God,
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and, God in him. Love is made complete among
us so that we will have confidence on the day of
judgment, because in this world we are like him.
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out
fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The
man who fears is not made perfect in love.
"We love because he first loved us. If anyone
says, "I love God", yet hates his brother, he is a
liar. For anyone who does not love his brother,
whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has
not seen. And he has given us this command:
Whoever loves God must also love his brother" (I
John 4:7-21).
2. The Apostle Peter
"Now that you have purified yourselves by
obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for
your brothers, love one another deeply from the
heart" (I Peter 1:22).
"The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear
minded and self-controlled so that you can pray.
Above all, love one another deeply, because love
covers a multitude of sins" (I Peter 4:7-8).
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"For this very reason, make every effort to add
to your faith goodness, and to goodness, know-
ledge; and to knowledge, self-control, godliness,
and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to bro-
therly kindness, love. For if you posses these quali-
ties in increasing measure, they will keep you from
being ineffective and unproductive in your know-
ledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:5-8).
"And over all these virtues put on love, which
binds them all together in perfect unity" (Colos-
sians 3:14).
3. The Apostle Paul
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or
a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but
have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess
to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,
but have not love, I gain nothing.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it
does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is
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not selfseeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but
rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
"Love never fails. But where there are prophe-
cies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they
will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will
pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy
in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect
disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a
child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put childish ways behind
me. Now we see but a poor reflection; then we
shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I
shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
"And now these three remain, faith, hope and
love. But the greatest of these is love" (1 Corin-
thians 13 - sometimes known as the 'Love Chap-
ter').
This is genuine Christianity. It is the religion
steeped in the spirit of redemption which, if neces-
sary, daily forgives wrongs seventy-seven times.
It is the Christian religion which stands out
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among the world's religions by virtue of Christ's
blood, which "speaks better things than the blood
of Abel". For Abel's blood cried out to God for
vengeance but the blood of Christ cried out plea-
ding forgiveness of God for his murderers. We
read that Jesus cried from the cross: "Father,
forgive them, for they do not know what they are
doing" (Luke 23:34).

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THE QUESTION
"Islam is altogether the final message and it is
the religion for all, suited to every time and place,
unlike the Christian which is confined to devotion
and the monastic life. It therefore bids you think
and strive and compare between the Koran and
what you call the 'Gospel'.
We find that the Koran is the word of God, may
he be exalted, while the Gospel consists of men's
words, such as those of Paul and John.
Finally, I desire to lead you to the straight
path... for such fabrications (nonsense) can no
longer escape notice! You have tried more than
once to snatch one of the Muslims but failed to
win anyone, whereas crowds of Christians have
embraced Islam."
A. A. A.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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From the expression you used in your letter it is
clear that you have a zeal for religion, and it is fine
for a youing man to be zealous in this way, as long
as his zeal does not carry him to overstep the
boundaries set for dialogue between a Muslim and
a Christian. It is when you challenge the beliefs of
the "People of the Book" in this fashion that you
violate the Koranic injunction, "Dispute not with
the People of the Book save in the fairer manner"
(Sura 9, The Spider 46).
Of course, it was your over-enthusiasm which
placed you in a corner from which you could not
enjoy the vision which the Gospel creates. For that
reason I am not surprised that you consider the
spiritual tracts we sent you as being garbage or
fabrications.
I do not wish to enter into an argument with
you over the statement that Islam is the final
message.
However, I would draw your attention, in love,
to an important truth, namely that when you
assert that Islam superseded all religions including
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Christianity you contradict the Koran through
your ignorance of its texts which confirm the reli-
gion of the Torah and the Gospel.
Possibly you have gained this idea of abroga-
tion from the book, "Guidance of Seekers, into
the Origins of Religion" by Mawia Mohammad
Takieddine Al Kashani, the Persian who said that
Muhammad is the prophet of this age, and his
religion has abrogated the religions of former pro-
phets.
Replying to this I would say: The Koran itself
does not mention that it has come to supersede the
Torah and the Gospel; likewise the Prophetic Tra-
ditions do not speak in this vein. So this makes
your statement ridiculous and feeble, baseless ex-
cept for the minds of those with an axe to grind,
whose main aim is to inject the poison of fanati-
cism. Even if this allegation does not overturn the
teaching of the Koran does at least confuse it and
makes it say something not contained in it.
Everyone knows that abrogation (something
superseding something else) is specifically applied
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to the Koran's texts only and occurs in two places:
1.	"And for whatever verse We abrogate or
cast into oblivion, We bring a better or the
like of it" (Sura 2, The Cow 106).
2.	"We sent not ever any Messenger or Prophet
before thee, but that Satan cast into his
fancy, when he was fancying, but God an-
nuls what Satan casts, then God confirms
His signs - surely God is All-knowing, All-
wise" (Sura 22, The Pilgrimage 52).
Those two texts do not indicate that the Koran
came to annul (or abrogate) the Holy Bible, but
that some of the texts of the Koran annul others.
The scholar Al-Baidawi has left us a comprehen-
sive discussion on the subject of abrogation referr-
ed to in the Pilgrimage Sura, and mentions how
some words from the Al-Hajm Sura were abro-
gated. You could look up these interpretations if
you wish.
Others have also mentioned this phenomenon
such as Yahya, and Jalal-Ed-Din. They are allud-
ed to in the Life of the Prophet by Ibn Hisham,
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after Ibn Ishaq. Another author, Al-Tabari refers
to this subject in his expanded interpretations.
Ibn Hatem relates the following, basing his in-
formation on Ibn Abbas: "It is possible that the
inspiration descended on the prophet by night and
he forgot the next day. And so the verse was given,
'And for whatever verse We aborgate or cast into
oblivion', etc" (see above).
As for Al-Baidawi, he says, "It (this verse) des-
cended when the idolators or the Jews accused:
"Don't you see that Muhammad commands his
followers then changes his mind and commands
the opposite!" Thus, the occasion of this verse was
clearly to answer the doubts of the scribes and the
Muslims regarding changes in the Koranic text
itself.
Furthermore, the Jalaleyn gives this interpreta-
tion: The prophet was reading from Surat Al-
Najm before a council, "Have ye thought upon
Al-Lat and Al-Uzza and Dmanat the Third, the
other?" (Surat Al-Najm 19-20). Satan putting
words on his tongue without his realizing it:
"Those heavenly beings, youthfully delicate and
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handsome, we hope they will intercede for us."
This made them happy. But Gabriel informed him
of what Satan had put on his tongue. He was sorry
and consoled himself with the verse, "But God
annuls what Satan casts, etc."
According to Al-Sayouti, annulment was pecu-
liar to this nation, that is, Islam.
Basing our conclusion on these comments
made by scholars we can say that the allegations
that the Koran supersedes the Gospel or Islam
supersedes other religions in unfounded.
In his book, "revealing the Truth", Al-Hajj Rah-
mat Allah Al-Hindi says: "The sayings that the
Torah was annulled by the advent of the Psalms,
and the Psalms annulled when the Gospel appear-
ed, and the Gospel was abrogated when the Koran
came, have no trace either in the Koran or the
Prophetic Traditions.
How true are the words of this scholar. The
Koran, contrary to the advocates of "annulment"
refutes these claims to their foundation when it
states: "He has laid down for you as religion that
He charged Noah with, and that We have revealed
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to thee, and that We charged Abraham with,
Moses, and Jesus: 'Perform the religion, and
scatter not regarding it'" (Sura 42, Al-Shura 13).
So you see, my friend, that you are attacking
your religion of Islam by claiming that heavenly
religions before Islam have been abrogated. In-
deed, can you tell me how you can as a Muslim,
enjoined to believe what is in the Koran, make
such a claim without a basis in fact?
Have you forgotten, my friend that the Koran
calls you with every Arab to be guided by the
precepts of The People of the Book? Yes, it says,
"God desires to make clear to you, and to guide
you in the institutions of those before you, and to
turn towards you; God is All-knowing, All-wise"
(Sura 4, Women 25).
Instead, you should ask, "could it be that our
religion is superseded?" as long as the Koran asks
Muhammad himself to follow our guidance when
it says:
"Those are they to whom We gave the Book, the
Judgment, the Prophethood; so if these disbelieve
in it, We have already entrusted it to a people who
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do not disbelieve in it. Those are they whom
God has guided, so follow their guidance" (Sura 6,
Cattle 89-90).
Instead, you should ask, how could our religion
have been superseded so long as the Koran calls on
Muhammad to resort to our forefathers in order
to remove his own doubts when it says:
"So if thou art in doubt regarding what We have
sent down to thee, ask those who recite the Book
before thee" (Sura 10, Jonah 94).
Tell me, how could our religion have been super-
seded as long as the Koran calls on us to establish
the judgments of the Gospel? It says: "So let the
people of the Gospel judge according to what God
has sent down therein. Whosoever judges not ac-
cording to what God has sent down - they are the
ungodly" (Sura 5, The Table 46).
My dear friend,
One of the distinctive things about our Holy
Bible is the fact that the teachings of its many
books show a complete harmony and move in one
direction, namely the declaration of God's pur-
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poses for the sons of men. Therefore, it neither has
abrogation nor an abrogated test among its teach-
ings.
God's Book is the Book for all generations and
epochs and the religion it enshrines is God's reli-
gion from eternity and for ever. In it is the divine
statement: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but
my words will never pass away" (Matthew 24:35).
And did not the Koran itself say in the Sura, Cattle
34, "No man can change the words of God." And
in Sura, Jonah 64, "There is no changing the
words of God." And in the Sura, El-Hijr 9, "It is
we who have sent down the Remembrance, and
we watch over it."
In the Sura, The Bee, we also read, "We send
not any before thee, except men to whom we
revealed: 'Question the people of the Remembran-
ce, if it should be that you do not know'" (Sura 16,
The Bee 43).
This text leads us to pose the question: Suppo-
sing a group of devout Muslims who faithfully
follow the Koran were going to the People of the
Book to inquire of them about divine things be-
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yond their knowledge. On the way they met ano-
ther group of those who claim 'annulment'. They
told them, 'We are going to the People of Remem-
brance to ask them on matters of which we are
ignorant." I wonder if the other group, the objec-
tors dare reply: "Do not go, for their Remembran-
ce (Book) has been annulled!"? Even if they dared
forbid them, what would be the position of the
devout? Would they believe them, or believe the
Koran which said: "Question the people of the
Remembrance, if it should be that you do not
know."
Assuredly, if they accepted the claim of annul-
ment it would have amounted to an admission on
their part that God had failed in his promise which
said: "It is we who have sent down the Remem-
brance, and we watch over it."
My noble friend,
I don't blame you when you judge Christianity
as being the religion of devotion and monasticism,
for this betrays your limited knowledge of Christi-
anity. For monasticism is not of the essence of the
Gospel but grew out of human endeavors on
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which I am unable to comment within the limited
space of this letter.
And now what would you say if I took the
endeavors of some unorthodox Islamic groups,
not strictly adhering to the Koran, in order to
attack and criticize Islam? Would that be fair? I
leave the reply to you... As to your statement that
the Koran is the word of God, whereas the Gospel
consists of the words of men like Paul and John:
This too shows how deficient your knowledge is
about Christianity.
Please understand, my friend, that the Gospel
in its essence is not words penned by Paul or John.
Likewise, our Gospel was not literally brought
down by Gabriel, and then written by men. But it
is a divine Person who became man in the fulness
of time in order to declare that God is love. Fur-
thermore, by this embodied love he accomplished
redemption to save the world by grace.
Regarding your gloating at the fact that some
Christians have embraced Islam and citing it as
proof that the one religion is superior to the other,
I ask you to comment then on the fact that thou-
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sands of Muslims have embraced the atheistic
communistic creed.
And what is your opinion of tens of thousands
of Indonesian Muslims who have embraced the
Christian religion.
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Awaiting the receipt of a kind gesture from you,
I wish you every good and peace with God. I am
praying especially for you that your love will
grow, perhaps this love will grant us more accep-
tance and favour on your part. Maybe love will
make you search out truths more intelligently.
You will then test all things and hold fast to the
good.

Dear Reader,
If you read this book carefully you can answer
the following questions and obtain a booklet from
our various publications, provided you answer 25
questions correctly. Of course, in doing this you
will also grow in the truth of God and his love.
1.	What are the different meanings of the word
Islam?
2.	Why does the Koran call Abraham a "Mus-
lim" even though Islam was not yet in existen-
ce?
3.	Why were the Jews and the followers of Christ
also called Muslims?
4.	How did Mohammad regard God's inspira-
tion to Moses and Jesus?
5.	Which Koranic verses call on a Muslim to
accept and read and observe the Torah and the
Gospel?
6.	Give three words of Christ which you consider
most important for yourself?
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7.	What do you understand from the verses in
the Holy Bible that Christ is "The Word of
God" incarnate.
8.	How did Paul testify that Jesus was incarnate?
9.	What is the pith and essence of Christ's reli-
gion?

10.	How do you understand the text in John 3:16?
11.	What are the prominent principles in other
world religions?
12.	What does the Holy Bible say about man's
good works?
13.	Which are the two most important command-
ments in the Torah?
14.	How does the Law judge man?
15.	Why didn't the Law offer salvation to man?
16.	What is Christ's attitude towards the Law and
how did he fulfill it in practise?
17.	What is the meaning of "grace" in relation to
the Law in the Gospel teachings?
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18.	How do you understand the famous prophecy
about the Lamb of God in the Book of Isaiah?
19.	Write down the words of the "Golden Rule"
and explain its meaning.
20.	What does it mean to fulfill the Law?
21.	How did Christ explain the love of one's
enemy to his disciples?
22.	Write down the verses you find most impres-
sive from John the apostle.
23.	What advice did Paul the apostle give as being
essential for our times?
24.	What have you learnt from the "Love Chap-
ter" - 1 Corinthians 13:1-7?
25.	What is the difference between the cry of
Abel's blood and the blood of Jesus Christ?
26.	How do you understand the Koranic text "Do
not argue with the People of the Scriptures"?
27.	How does the statement that Islam has an-
nulled Christianity constitute an attack on the
Koran itself?
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28.	What is the source of the idea of abrogation?
29.	What are the two cases for abrogation which
can be applied to Koranic texts?
30.	How do the Islamic authorities explain and
defend the possibility of abrogation in the
Koran?
31.	How does the Koran prove the impossibility
of abrogating former revelations and establish
previous laws?
32.	If a Muslim is unsure of something in the
Koran, which text guides him to the Christians
for teaching and direction?
33.	Who are the "ungodly" according to Sura,
The Table 47?
34.	What does Christ say about the permanence
of his words, even if heaven and earth were to
pass away?

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R - 4000   EXAMINING THE SOURCES					
RB4003 Engl.	The Infallibility of the Torah	1974	Iskander			64	6,—	
	and the Gospel		Jadeed				
RB4003 Urdu	The Infallibility of the Torah	1984	Iskandcr	_	64	6,—	
	and the Gospel		Jadeed				
RC4003 Engl.	The Infallibility of the Torah	1986	Iskandcr	C62	—	9,—	
	and the Gospel (Part i)		Jadeed				
RC4003 Urdu	The Infallibility of the Torah	1988	Iskandcr	C62	_	9,—	
	and the Gospel (Part l)		Jadeed				
RC4004 Engl.	The Infallibility of the Torah	1986	Iskander	C38	_	6,—	
	and the Gospel (Part 2)		Jadeed				
RC4004 Urdu	The Infallibility of the Torah	1988	Iskander	C66	_	9,—	
	and the Gospel (Part 2)		Jadeed				
RB4030 Engl.	The Gospel of Barnabas	1978	Iskandcr	_	24	3,—	
	Is a False Testimony		Jadeed				
RB4050 Engl.	No! The Religion of Christ Has	1990	Iskander	_	29	3,—	
	Not Been Abrogated		Jadeed				
R - 4100     THE	UNDERSTANDING OF GOD				
RB4101   Engl.	God Is One in the Holy Trinity	1981	liutrus
Zacharia	-	56	5,—	
RB4103  Engl.	Trinity and Unity	1988	Pope
Shcnuda III	-	12	3,—	
RB4U5   Engl.	Did God Appear in the Flesh?	1971	Iskander
Jadeed	-	48	5,—	
R - 4300    CHRISTOLOGY						

—       96        8,—
—	12,-
—	12,-
—	9,-
—	12,-
32	3,-
24	3,-
88        7,-
40        4,-
rb 4301 Engl.    The Person of Christ in the	1975
Gospel and the Koran
rb 4301 Urdu    The Person of Christ in the	1983
Gospel and the Koran
rc 4301 Engl.    The Person of Christ in the	1986
Gospel and the Koran (Parti)
rc 4301 Urdu    The Person of Christ in the	1988
Gospel and the Koran (Part 1)
rc 4302 Engl.    The Person of Christ in the	1986
Gospel and the Koran (Part 2)
rc 4302 Urdu    The Person of Christ in the	1988
Gospel and the Koran (Part 2)
rb 4355 Engl.    What Do You Think About Christ? 1978
RB4355 Urdu What DoYouThink About Christ? 1986
rc 4355 Engl. What Do You Think About Christ? 1982
rc 4355 Urdu    What Do You Think About Christ? 1988
rb 4370 Engl.    The Light of the World	1984
rb 4380 Engl.    How Can We Know the Truth of   1 wi-
the Gospel?

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First
edi-
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Cass. Book   I'ricc
Min.  l'ages SFr

R-	4400    SIN AND SALVATION						
	KB 4401   Engl.	Sin and Atonement in Islam and	1979	Iskander	_	56	3_	
		Christianity		ladced				
	RB4401   Urdu	Sin and Atonement in Islam and	1985	Iskander		48	5,—	
		Christianity		ladced				
	RC4401  Urdu	Sin and Atonement in Islam and	1988	Iskander	C60	_	9,—	
		Christianity (Part l)		ladced				
	RC4402 Urdu	Sin and Atonement in Islam and	1988	Iskander	G52	_	9,—	
		Christianity (Part 2}		ladced				
	RB4480 Engl.	The Cross in the Gospel and	1969	Iskander	_	48	5,—	
		the Koran		ladced				
	RB4480 Urdu	The Cross in the Gospel and	1983	Iskander	_	48	5,—	
		the Koran		ladced				
	RC4480 Engl.	The Cross in the Gospel and	1986	Iskander	C72	_	12,—	
		the Koran		ladced				
	RC 4480 Urdu	The Cross in the Gospel and	1988	Iskander	C86	_	12,—	
		the Koran		ladced				
R-	4600    SPIRITUAL LIFE						
	RB4665 Engl.	How Do We Pray?	1977	Iskander
ladced	-	32	3,—	
	RB4665 Urdu	How Do We Pray?	1985	Iskander	-	40	3,—	
	RC4665 Engl.	How Do We Pray?	1982	Iskander
ladced	C56	-	C) 		
	RC4665 Urdu	How Do We Pray?	1988	Iskander
ladced	C88	-	12,—	
R-	4900    MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS					
	RB4905 Engl.	Themes for the Diligent	1989	Nicola
Ghabriel	-	128	10,—	
	RB4920 Engl.	Victory of the Truth	1988	Iskander
ladced	-	132	11,—	
	RB4930 Engl.	Teach Me Your Way, 0 Lord!	1982	Iskander
ladced	-	40	4		
	RB4940 Engl.	Test Everything, Hold On to	1980	Iskander			112	9,—	
		the Good!		ladced				
	RT4999 Engl.	Tracts (one thousand)	1985	Servants of
the Lord	-	4	50,—	
	RT4999 Urdu	Tracts (one thousand)	1978	Servants of
the Lord	-	4	50,—	
R-	7800   BIOGRAPHIES						

RB7801 Engl.    For the Sake of Truth
Why I Became a Christian
THE GOOD WAY P.O.BOX 66 • CH-8486 RIKON (SWITZERLAND)
RB 7825 Engl.
RB7830 Engl.
RB7840 Engl.
RB7845 Engl.

In Search of Assurance
God Has Chosen for Me
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llamran	—      96
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